horrific traffic

It is a good thing we left early!

Tony picked me up at 6:30 (even though I offered to drive in my car). We took Windermere south and then did the little diversion along Southport St around to the South Kingway so to make the Gardiner eastbound. The left turn onto the S. Kingway was bad (must not go this way again!). Everything was looking good until a string of brake lights after Jarvis appeared. Oh no.

Flicking on the radio to 680 News confirmed the worst. Every freakin' Toronto driver was panicking because it was—ah, ah, ah, make it stop, the horror—it was raining! Useless. Every single one of them. Useless. Take the train. Stop driving. Stop wasting your life. And the gas. And the money. And the oxygen... Stop clogging our highways. And get out of my way! OK. Sorry for the rant.

It was looking sketchy so I asked Tony to phone Mr Markov, to put the meme in his brain, that The Sky This Month might not be the first presentation this go-around.

We elected to stay on the highway, the freeway, the slow-way since it was starting to pick up. But once onto Don Mills Rd, it was clear that the city routes were a mess too. It was a long slog up the road to the Ontario Science Centre.

We were probably parked and walking in at 7:30 PM, exactly when the meeting was to start. The last place (or time rather) I wanted to be. Fortunately, Paul—surveying the thin crowd—had decided to start a bit later. That gave me about 3.76 minutes to set up.

On with the show...

[ed: The president arrived around 8:15 PM. Surely, nasty, coming from Waterloo...]

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It is ironic now, that I launched the "inclement weather meeting policy" article on our web site a couple of weeks ago, and that I was asking Tony about it, on the drive up, if he had reviewed it...